William,

I ask how many of these were unnecessary deployments, or events where the
pilot should have been able to land the airplane safely?


Unnecessary as measured by what and whom? Guys, this is
Mondey-Morning-Quarterbacking of the worst kind. "Ah, had the pilot been as
good as I am, he should have landed the plane safely. What a sissy to pull
the chute!" Yeah right! It's this attitude that makes "pilot error" the
prime cause of accidents. Heck, we regularly cause a ton of accidents by
totally stupid things like running out of fuel! And now you're talking about
how someone after a LOC should fly on as if nothing happened even if his
plane has an option exactly for this case? I don't get it.

It's us causing all those accidents in the statistics, not "them". And these
posts show me why.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)